I&E Council

100+ leaders spanning the campus meet monthly as the Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) Council with the goal of knitting our I&E ecosystem together.

  • Alice M. Agogino — Blum Center for Developing Economies | Squishy Robotics
  • Allison Schmitt — Life Sciences Law and Policy Center
  • Almog Goldstein — Open Innovation Labs at the Institute for Business Innovation
  • Andrea McEvoy — Intellectual Property & Industry Research Alliances (IPIRA)
  • Angeli Patel — Berkeley Center for Law and Business
  • Brian Bordley — Berkeley SkyDeck Fund
  • Bruce Riordan — Berkeley Climate Change Network
  • Camille Crittenden — CITRIS & the Banatao Institute
  • Carl Blumstein — California Institute for Energy and Environment
  • Carol Mimura — Intellectual Property & Industry Research Alliances (IPIRA)
  • Caroline Winnett — Berkeley SkyDeck | Embee Mobile
  • Carolyn Sherry — Innovative Genomics Institute
  • Chon Tang — Berkeley SkyDeck Fund | Seed Stage Investor
  • Chris Bush — Haas Institute for Business Innovation | Clausen Center for International Business and Policy
  • Chris (Anne) Dito — Berkeley Management, Entrepreneurship & Technology (MET)
  • Claudia Williams — School of Public Health
  • Daniel Wolfe — UCSF UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health
  • Darek DeFreece — Berkeley Space Center
  • Darren Cooke — Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer (Interim) & Berkeley Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center
  • David Bloom — The House Fund
  • David Law — Global Academic Program | Venture Dojo Private Ltd
  • David Schaffer — IGNITE Immunotherapy, Inc.
  • David Weiner — NSF iCorps Bay Area
  • Dawn McGee — Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Hub
  • Debra Summers — Intellectual Property & Industry Research Alliances (IPIRA)
  • Diana Lizarraga — UC Berkeley
  • Donna Hendrix — California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences - Berkeley (QB3 - Berkeley)
  • Dylan Chiu — Berkeley Frontier Fund
  • Ekin Günaysu — Berkeley Skydeck
  • Eric Giegerich — Intellectual Property & Industry Research Alliances (IPIRA)
  • Gail Gannon — Neurotech Collider Lab
  • Gino Segre — QB3
  • Jacob Gallice — Educational Programs and New Initiatives, CDSS
  • Jared Mazzanti — School of Public Health
  • Jasbir (Jesse) Kindra — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Jennifer Mangold — Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership
  • Jeremy Alberga — Bakar BioEnginuity Hub
  • Jesse Dieker — UC Berkeley College of Engineering
  • Jill Finlayson — EDGE In Tech | TechWomen
  • Jennifer Nice — Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET)
  • Jocelyn Weber Phipps — Berkeley RDI & Blockchain Xcelerator
  • John D. Coates — Energy Biosciences Institute
  • Julia Schaletzky — Molecular Therapeutics Initiative
  • Julie McShane — Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership
  • Julie Shapiro — CITRIS & the Banatao Institute
  • Justin Wiley — Institute of Transportation Studies
  • Karenna Rehorn — UC Berkeley Health Tech CoLab
  • Karin H. Bauer — Berkeley Blockchain Initiative | Haas School of Business
  • Kaspar Mossman — QB3 | Bakar Labs
  • Kathy Yelick — Vice Chancellor for Research
  • Keith McAleer — Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology
  • Kelly Ochoa — StEP
  • Ken Singer — Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET) | European Innovation Academy
  • Laleh Shayesteh — Administration and Senior Licensing Officer | Intellectual Property & Industry Research Alliances (IPIRA)
  • Laura Hassner — Executive Director, Innovation & Entrepreneurship & Berkeley Changemaker
  • Lucia Stanković — ASUC
  • Marjan Faizi — Berkeley Postdoc Entrepreneur Program
  • Matt Rappaport — UC Berkeley Deep Tech Innovation Lab
  • Maryam Vareth — Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) | College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS)
  • Maryanne McCormick — Blum Center for Developing Economies
  • Matthew Taksa — Berkeley Venture Capital
  • Megan Arnett — Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry
  • Megan Morrice — Sustainable and Impact Finance Initiative
  • Mia Rauer — CIEO Senior Student Assistant
  • Michael Rielly — Executive Education
  • Mio Katayama Owens — Rausser College of Natural Resources
  • Mike Cohen — IPIRA I&E Ecosystem Development
  • Negest Williams — Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute (ENSI)
  • Nicholas Gold — New Academic Ventures (NAV-B)
  • Nicole-Marie Cotton — CITRIS & the Banatao Institute
  • Omar Qarshi — Equity Solutions Group
  • Phillip Denny — Blum Center for Developing Economies
  • Rachel Barley — UC Berkeley
  • Rhonda Shrader — BerkeleyHaas Entrepreneurship | Invisible International
  • Ricardo Rodriguez — Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology
  • Robin Johnston — Berkeley Lab | RIDGE-LANE Limited Partners
  • Sabrina Merlo — Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
  • Saikat Chaudhuri — Berkeley Management, Entrepreneurship & Technology (MET)
  • Sarah Jones — Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet
  • Shilpi Kumar — Director of Partnerships, Bakar Climate Labs
  • Sibyl Chen — Berkeley SkyDeck
  • Susan Abrahamson — Innovative Geomics Institute (IGI)
  • Susan Giesecke — Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET)
  • Susan Jenkins — Bakar Fellows Program | Bakar BioEnginuity Hub
  • Susan Marqusee — Deptartment of Molecular & Cell Biology
  • Tamara Bock — CITRIS & Banatao Institute
  • Tarek Zohdi — Richmond Field Station
  • Taylor Marcus — Berkeley Skydeck
  • Ted Robertson — College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS)
  • Terhilda Garrido — Sustainable and Impact Finance Initiative
  • Terri Sale — Intellectual Property & Industry Research Alliances (IPIRA)
  • Tiff Dressen — Vice Chancellor Research Office (VCRO)
  • Todd Pray — Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
  • Verna Manty Rodriguez — Master of Translational Medicine Program
  • Yi Liu — Energy & Biosciences Institute Incubator Program